Politics, Power and Policy Making: Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s: Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s

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ISBN: 9781563249556 | 1563249553
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/30/1997

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Tracking the issue of health care reform through the tumultuous 1990s, Politics, Power, and Policy Making opens a window on the changing dynamics of American politics from the Clinton inauguration in January 1993 through the Republican revolution of 1995 and the 1996 presidential race. The book brings the legislative process to life by tracking a single controversial policy issue through the system, effectively linking public policy studies with the study of American political institutions.

List of Tables and Figures

(2)

Preface

1 Setting the Stage

(13)

Prior Attempts at Reform

(5)

Explaining the Failure of Reform

(4)

Remainder of the Chapters

(3)

2 Health Care Reform Returns to the National Agenda: The Winds of Change

(35)

Theories of Agenda Setting

(1)

Theories of Policy Agenda Setting

(4)

Health Care Reform, Agenda Setting, and the Window of Opportunity

(27)

Conclusion

(2)

3 Presidential Leadership and Policy Making

(38)

Theories of Presidential Leadership, Rhetoric, and Performance

(6)

President Clinton and Health Care Reform: 1993-94

(16)

President Clinton and Health Care Reform: 1995-96

(12)

Conclusion

(3)

4 Congress and Health Care

(51)

Congressional Structure and Process

(5)

Elections, Realignment, Divided Government, and Gridlock

(3)

Presidential Agenda and Activist Government, 1993-94

(14)

The 1994 Elections

111

(3)

The Republicans Take Control

114

(1)

Addressing Health Care in the 104th Congress

115

(20)

The 1996 Elections

135

(2)

Conclusion

137

(3)

5 Interest Groups

140

(33)

Interest Groups and the Constitution

140

(2)

Growth of Interest Groups

142

(4)

What Interest Groups Do

146

(1)

Critique of Interest Groups

146

(5)

Interest Groups and Comprehensive Health Care Reform Proposals, 1993-94

151

(6)

Strategy and Tactics

157

(5)

Interest Groups and Health Care in the 104th Congress

162

(7)

Conclusion

169

(4)

6 The Role of the Mass Media in the Policy Process

173

(38)

The Development of the Mass Media in the United States

174

(3)

Theories of Media and Public Agenda Setting

177

(7)

The Mass Media and Coverage of Health Care News

184

(2)

Mass Media and Health Care Reform: 1993-94

186

(15)

Mass Media and Health Care Reform: 1995-96

201

(8)

Conclusion

209

(2)

7 Public Opinion and Health Care Policy

211

(32)

Polling

213

(1)

Policy Congruence

214

(2)

Laying the Foundation: Public Opinion Prior to 1993

216

(8)

Public Opinion and Comprehensive Health Care Reform, 1993-94

224

(9)

Public Opinion and Health Care in 1995-96

233

(6)

Explaining Public Opinion and Entitlement Cutbacks

239

(1)

Conclusion

239

(4)

8 Politics, Power, and Policy Making

243

(12)

Chronology

255

(18)

References

273

(24)

Index

297

(16)

About the Authors

313

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Politics, Power and Policy Making: Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s: Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s

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